Hi, I'd like you to take a look at this patch for potential DocImpact. https://review.openstack.org/20288 Log: commit 00b38e78759357cc2c4991b9992a57c92c41dde5 Author: Rafi Khardalian <rafi at metacloud.com> Date: Wed Jan 23 01:55:09 2013 +0000 Allow users to specify a tmp location via config Fixes bug 981104 Although the temporary directory used can be controlled via environment variables, this patch provides a way to define it explicitly via a config option. The default value is None, which behaves per the doc below: http://docs.python.org/2/library/tempfile.html#tempfile.tempdir Flags: DocImpact Change-Id: I47b6d8bac734f453c80d541b46086a30e847c859